Hoisting-bucket.



W. RUTAN.

HOISTING BUCKET.

APPLICATION HLED FEB. 23. 1916.

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WILLIAM UTAN, or NEW YORK, 1\T.'Y., ASSIGNOR Tc GILLIS & Gnoonneau, or NEW YORK, N. Y., A FIRM.

HOISTING-BUCKET.

Application filed February 23, 1916.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, TVILLIAM'RUTAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, borough of Queens, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hoisting-Buckets, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates particularly to receptacles for ashes and like material to be raised from cellars at frequentintervals through sidewalk hoistways and dumped into carts by suitable light hoisting mechanism.

In many such situations the work of hoisting and dumping a series of such cans or buckets is necessarily performed by one person alone, which requires a descent to the cellar to attach the hoisting-hook to the bail of the succeeding can or bucket and a reasceut to the sidewalk level to elevate and dump it into the cart, or, the attendant may fish with the hook and cable from the sidewalk through the hoistway and attempt to grapple the bail of the next can to be hoisted. In the latter case it is customary to support the bail of each can in an approximately upright position by a stick or other extemporized means before ascending to the sidewalk level, thus facilitating the grappling operation but with the fault that frequently the swing of the heavy hook knocks down the temporary support and the bail falls. The object of this invention is to provide simple inexpensive means for yieldingly or frictionally supporting the bail with sufficient rigidity to permit the grappling operation to be performed successfully, while permitting the suspended can to be reversed or overturned'easily in the subsequent dumping operation.

The invention consists in certain novel features and details of construction and arrangement I by which theabove objects are attained, to be hereinafter described and claimed.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification and show the invention as it has been carried out in practice.

Figure 1 is a vertical section through a sidewalk hoistway, showing two cans in elevation, each constructed in accordance with the invention.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 7as4a' Fig. :2 is an elevation of a can on a larger scale.

Fig. 3 is a corresponding view at a right angle to the preceding figure.

Fig. t is a plan view corresponding to Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a plan view, partly in horizontal section, on a still larger scale, showing in detail the operation of the bail-retaining device.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

A is the body of the can or bucket, shown as cylindrical and having radial pins or trunnions B on opposite sides, receiving the eyes C of a ail C having a partial loop C of the midlength adapted to be engaged by a hoisting-hook D on a cable D, see- Fig. 1, wound upon a drum or Windlass, not shown, or other suitable hoisting mechanish operated above the sidewalk level.

The can is reinforced as usual by bands A A at the top and bottom, which may be understood to be riveted to the body of the can.

The trunnions B B are located but little above the midheight of the can in order to permit the latter to be easily reversed, and the bail is so shaped and proportioned as to permit the open end of the can to pass freely therethrouejh in the act of dumping while suspended by the bail.

On the upper band A? on each side of a vertical line passing through the trunnion, is located a round-headed stud F which may be an ordinary rivet serving with others, not shown, to attach the band to the body. The rivets F F are separated sufficiently to receive the vertical portion of the bail in the space or notch between them, and their rounded heads project slightly into the path of this portion of the bail as the latter is swung relatively to the can, or vice versa, so that in placing the bail. in the upright position the rounded surface of the bail strikes the rounded surface of one of the rivets or studs F and is swung outwardly a short distance in riding over the obstruction thus offered, and after such frictional passage is movably' retained in the upright position in the notch between the studs, as indicated in Fig.

Thus constructed the attendant may set up the bails of all the cans to be lifted before ascending to the sidewalk level and easily engage the hook D with such bails successively as the cans are to be hoisted and dumped.

The resistance offered by the engagement of the bail with the studs F F is so slight as to be negligible in the dumping operation but is sufiicient to maintain the bail in the upright position against blows of the swinging hook in the operation of fishing for the cans.

The invention obviates the expense and manipulation in the use of movable latches and analogous locking means, and is especially adapted for the light service in which cans of this class are employed.

The can is shown as provided with one pair of studs on one side only but an additional pair, or other form of notch, may

copies of this patent may be obtained for be located on the opposite side to engage the other limb of the bail simultaneously if desired.

I claim A can, a reinforcing band at the upper end thereof, a bail pivotally mounted on said can and having a partial loop at its midlength, a pair of projecting rivets on said band having rounded heads serving the double function of joining said band to said can and forming between them a notch adapted to engage the limb' of said bail frictionally and hold the latter yieldingly in an upright position relatively to said can, said rivets being at a distance from the pivot of the bail and in proximity to the outer portion thereof.

In testimony that I claim-the invention above set forth I affix my signature.

WILLIAM RUTAN.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

